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Id: 16881
Status: resolved
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Queue: XML-Simple
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Requestors: thierer [...] web.de
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 2.14
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  Tue Jan 03 07:13:39 2006 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: XMLout should encode ' as '
While XMLout escapes to '<', '>', '&' and '&quot', it doesn't escape ' to ''' This leads to an error when reading back such a file with XMLin.
  Tue Jan 03 15:20:15 2006 grantm [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
This is by design and not a bug. It is not necessary to escape every instance of a ' or a " character in an XML document. It is necessary to escape a quote character in the value of an attribute, but only if the quote character matches the attribute value delimiter. For example: <book publisher='O&apos;Reilly'> However, since XML::Simple always uses double quotes for attributes, it never needs to escape single quotes. This is still well-formed XML: <book publisher="O'Reilly"> If you prefer to have your single quote characters escaped, you can create your own class which inherits from XML::Simple, but overrides the escape_value() method. Your bug report suggests that not escaping single quotes leads to errors from XMLin, but you didn't include the error. Cheers Grant
  Tue Jan 03 15:20:16 2006 grantm [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'